On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:05 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> >>> > I would also add to the contract a requirement to offer Linux support >>> > for, say, the next five years. >>> >>> Not sure if we should call it a contract unless its understood its an >>> informal contract with the community. >> >> There has to be some form of contract. The logo is copyrighted, >> obviously, so there has to be a contract for you to be allowed to print >> it on a box. > > Heh, Whatever makes the copyright holders happy :) I suspect the > copyright holder are after the community's best interests anyway. > >>> Also I don't think we should be >>> specific about a time frame for support -- its difficult enough to get >>> the driver upstream, not that its not possible I just think it we >>> should strive to at least get vendors to properly support Linux by >>> submitting their drivers for upstream into Linus' tree. Support tends >>> to come naturally after that :) >> >> Because sometimes there are users who care. I think though that the >> vendor should participate in future development by testing and fixing >> their driver, for at least a period of time. Five years may be too much, >> given the current chip livetime maybe one or two would make sense, >> kernel releases are only roughly every three months. >> >> Mind you, I wasn't talking about user support, but rather development >> support, kinda like a SUPPORTED tag in the MAINTAINERS file. > > This seems reasonable. If we can formalize on this it would be great. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
